Michael "Flex" Dean got to take Devin Grissom for a tractor ride in the sixth episode of "Sweet Home Alabama," but the night ended with him looking for a ride home. (CMT photo)

The latest lesson learned from “Sweet Home Alabama”: Being a quarterback might or might not impress a Southern girl’s dad, but it’s better than having a role in a obscure porn film, however tasteful the lighting might have been.

The sixth episode of the CMT reality show, set mostly in Baldwin County, featured a visit from Scott Grissom, whose mission was to check out the 5 remaining suitors vying for the affections of his daughter, Devin.

The show has featured some distinctively rustic settings, and this was no different. Papa Grissom’s first real chance to get to know the contenders took place at Boggs and Boulders, a “4x4 offroad adventure park and campground” in Conecuh County.

Devin Grissom showed a playful side in a muddy encounter with Adam Moyer. (CMT photo)

The winner of the day seemed to be Tennessee horse trainer Adam Moyer, but not because he hit it off well with the father: After getting his all-terrain vehicle stuck, he managed to turn the day’s mud-riding session into a playful mud fight with the daughter, complete with kissing.

“Adam, he’s the type of guy who can make being covered in mud be romantic,” Devin Grissom enthused afterward.

Her father gave a particularly hard time to Birmingham bartender Tribble Reese, a former Clemson Quarterback. “Quarterbacks don’t impress me,” Devin’s father said in an aside. “They don’t impress me at all.”

But the real casualty was Las Vegas personal trainer Michael “Flex” Dean. Scott Grissom was not happy about Dean’s big scene in a 2006 film called “Hotel Erotica Cabo,” and neither was his daughter, once her dad filled her in.

Dean argued that the role was non-explicit and a legitimate acting credit, but his fate was sealed.

His departure deprives the show of its most polarizing figure and leaves Hollywood entrepreneur Jason Maxim as the odd man out. He’s now the lone “city boy” contending with three “country boys” -- Moyer, Reese and Birmingham landscaper Collin Varallo. Maxim has already sparred verbally with Reese, though a much-hyped faceoff that began Thursday’s episode ultimate led nowhere.

For next week’s episode, the seventh of eight, CMT promises “the most romantic dates yet,” with locations including LuLu’s at Homeport Marina in Gulf Shores and Bellingrath Gardens in Mobile. Two men will be cut, leaving just two contenders going into the finale.

Eva Golson, director of the Mobile Film Office, said producers have told her they plan to begin taping a second season of the show before the month is out. Featuring a mix of one man and 20 bachelorettes, it too will be set in southwest Alabama. A text crawl during Thursday’s episode indicated that a casting call is still open, and Golson said her office and the show’s producers are still scouting locations.